The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.

HOTSPOTS

8 letters

Definition of HOTSPOTS

noun

plural of hotspot

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Rarity score
Withheld
Revealed only in play
Tier
Withheld
Find it yourself

OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

HOTSPOTS in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 1 board so far.

Day 1Day 120
Its one board, across 120 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
1
Boards found on
118
First board
2
Days since seen

It first turned up on Day 118, 15 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.

First ever to find it

wendellgee

on Day 118, 15 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers

Built from these letters

HOTSPOTS
8
Letters
2
Vowels
6
Consonants
5
Different letters
3
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

HOTSPOTS starts with H and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read HOOPSSTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O, T and S appear more than once.

Same letters, different word

One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.

POTSHOTS

Words that start HOTSPO

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

HOTSPOT

Could you have found HOTSPOTS?

OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 118 - and most players walked straight past it.

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